Rising Surveillance of Remote Employees Could Trigger Backlash: Survey

An employee typing on a computer keyboard at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow on Oct. 17, 2016. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

Increasing surveillance of work-at-home employees could trigger a backlash or “employee activism” in the next three to five years.

A recent survey of Australia’s largest corporations explored how the country’s senior executives would tackle a range of issues around employee health and social justice issues.